Regional Resilience and Spatial Cycles: Long-Term Evolution of the Chinese Port System (221bc-2010ad)

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 104, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 521-538

  Wang, Chengjin ^a   Ducruet, César ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES RESEARCH   (China)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

China; Port system; Spatial evolution; Transport system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84887191372     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/tesg.12033     Document Type: Article

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